Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.

And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.